The Hard Truth About Composting Eggshells
You can compost eggshells, but do they ever really break down, and is it worth it? Advice for the lazy (sorry, efficient) composter.
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I Buried A Whole Chicken In My Compost Bin. This Is What It Looked Like Two Days Later
Can you compost chicken? I buried a whole raw carcass in a hot heap. Here’s what I found after 48 hours…
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Drunken Composting: Does It Actually Work?
Drunken composting is all over YouTube, but does it actually work? I put it to the test on two bins and a HotBin – here’s what the thermometer said.
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Composting Grass Clippings: Mistakes, Myths and 2 Tricks
Lying between the back of my house and my chicken run is a large expanse of lawn. My wife loves it; I always think it’s fairly useless since it doesn’t grow anything I can eat. But in one way, it’s far from useless – it’s a fantastic source of compost material. In fact, when I
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The Worst Composting Advice I’ve Ever Heard
Here’s five pieces of composting advice which make composting slower, smellier, harder – and give worse results. Plus the unexpected good news about this bad advice.
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My Sweetcorn Was Twice the Size of My Neighbours’. Was It the Beans?
This year something changed in my sweetcorn patch. The plants were taller, stronger, greener – and twice the size of those in our community garden down the road. And the harvest was superbly sweet and succulent as we ate it, freshly barbecued, dripping with butter. It was also the first time I’d successfully grown beans
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How Do Electric Composters Work, and Is the Output Compost?
How do electric composters work? Inside the microbiology, the one independent study of the output, and what manufacturers will not claim about maturity.
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Best Electric Composters for 2026
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GEME Terra II Review: I Fed It Bones, Nutella, Even Chicken…
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Joraform Review: Is the World’s Priciest Tumbler Actually Worth It?
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